Something Strange

May 8, 1988

FIERY JUSTICE. Two West Orange buildings have burned while suits involving the buildings were tied up in circuit court, Ocoee Mayor Tom Ison explained at last week's city council meeting. Last month, the clubhouse on the Silver Pine Golf Course in Pine Hills burned the day before a judge decided who owned the course. Last week, a converted horse stable that served as a church was set ablaze less than a week after a judge dismissed the Christian Life Assembly church's suit against Ocoee, which had fined the church for building violations. ''That's a strange coincidence,'' Ison said. But Commissioner John Bateman preferred to look at it as a wishful opportunity. ''I wish somebody would bring my car in front of the judge,'' he quipped.